Yuasa spinoff school lineage

The Yuasa Lineage

Yuasa School 

Yuichiro Sueyoshi 

Masaaki Yuasa 

Nobutaka Ito 

Naoyuki Asano 

*Tellingly, the Yuasa effects and character acting school is a downplayed hybrid of Kanada and expressionist styles as with that of the Asano school, yet tends to lean into less boredom inducing scenarios. However, it’s not quite closely related to the Mao Lamdo school lineage and is still more related to the Asano school, even though it feels similar to the former.

The Yamashita Nakamura Lineage  

Kozuma School 

Kazuko Nakamura > Shinsaku Kozuma 

Norimoto Tokura

*The unlikeliness of Shingo Yamashita’s effects lineage having survived the influential pre-Kanadafication age of Japanese tv is a telling indicator, since it began with Kazuko Nakamura. Nakamura indeed was one of the most influential Mushi Pro and Toei animators alive, which meant that Tokura himself has now gained a school of fellow distinct animators, who don’t just adhere to some bits of his own process but also have added a crapload of older effects from him. The ‘Tokura Tentacle’, the rough and slowly twisting acting style popularised by him but created by his indirect senior Shinsaku Kozuma, also is a such strong characteristic that Yuichiro Sueyoshi and Shingo Yamashita exploit it even further. 

The Kameda Lineage 

Tanaka School

Minoru Maeda 

Hironori Tanaka

Hiroshi Tomioka 

*Oddly enough, Hironori Tanaka’s got a more Kozuma like effects style, but enough not to be too jarring, given his stronger and more obvious inspirations in Dezaki, Yuasa, and Ohira, all via Yamashita, Kozuma and Kanada. Given that Shinsaku Kozuma and Atsushi Yano are his biggest influences after Masaaki Yuasa and Tatsuo Yamada, there are some cool Ohira like effects as well, though they’re more likely from Shinya Ōhira’s own early years since Yano’s friend himself has long been transformed into the master of surreal Mao Lamdo style wizardry. 

Kameda School

Naoki Tate 

Yoshimichi Kameda

Shuhei Yasuda

*Yoshimichi Kameda is influenced not just by Yoshinori Kanada and Takahiro Kagami, but also by fellow colleagues such as Hiroyuki Imaishi and Naoki Tate. Even so, there also are slight bits of both Shinya Ohira’s and Masaaki Yuasa’s early styles in his works, even though that’s from Shinya Ōhira’s co-founding of Studio Break with fellow Maeda and Kozuma fanatic Yano. However, as Naoki Tate turns out to be his strongest inspiration, he remains one of the last animators to directly descend in terms of style from Kusube via Yano and Kanada.